Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; 1. World networks and the politics of the world-economy; 2. Patterns and prospectives of the capitalist world-economy; Part I. The States and the Interstate System: 3. The states in the institutional vortex of the capitalist world-economy; 4. The three instances of hegemony in the history of the capitalist world-economy; 5. The withering away of the states; 6. Friends as foes; 7. The USA in the world today; 8. The world-economy and the state-structures in peripheral and dependent countries (the so-called Third World); 9. Socialist states: mercantilist strategies and revolutionary objectives; Part II. Antisystemic Movements: 10. The future of the world-economy; 11. Eurocommunism: its roots in European working-class history; 12. Nationalism and the world transition to socialism: is there a crisis?; 13. Revolutionary movements in the era of US hegemony and after; Part III. The Civilizational Project: 14. The quality of life in different social systems: the model and the reality; 15. Civilizations and modes of production: conflicts and convergences; 16. The dialectics of civilizations in the modern world-system; 17. The development of the concept of development; Index.